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Posting to Twitter, Aer Lingus said: 'We apologise to our customers for any inconvenience caused in this period.'

We apologise to our customers for any inconvenience caused in this period. We are working to resolve the connection issues as soon as possible. "We are working to resolve the connection issues as soon as possible."

Aer Lingus cancelled almost all of its afternoon flights to and from Dublin airport on Saturday as connection problems in its reservation systems disrupted ...

The only exceptions in its schedule from 1300 GMT onwards were flights from Portugal and Spain, which it said planned to operate, albeit with delays. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com

Dublin Airport is urging patience as “chaotic” scenes of hundreds of passengers queuing outside on Saturday was blamed on Aer Lingus systems crashing.

And the PA notifications are deplorable both in lack of content and in delivery.” Others branded the backlog a “mess”, while one said: “This type of scene would put you off travelling”. Amid scenes in Dublin Airport, described as “chaotic”, the airline has appealed for would-be passengers on routes scheduled to depart after 2pm on Saturday not to turn up at the airport. We hope you can understand this.” albeit with delays and risk of short-notice cancellations.” “No movement.

AER Lingus has cancelled all flights departing Dublin Airport for British and European destinations for the rest of the day.

“We have two and half hours to get through this and then we have to do pre-clearance. “It took us an hour and a half to get in the door alone. We were told that the Aer Lingus website was down and we had to queue up,” Mr Kennedy said. This is just a disgrace and with no communication.” The family were due to flight Orlando at 2.50pm. So we count ourselves lucky that we’re not queuing outside with the kids,” he added. Once we get on a plane today I don’t care. “We haven’t been out of the country together in three years. They could at least have a few more people explaining the situation. “I’d definitely think twice about it [flying from Dublin] again. There’s practically no information, the website is down. We were really looking forward to it and the kids were looking forward to it.”